Pascal Thériault Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Establishing a vision of a dynamic and versatile world for an online multiplayer game• Building and leading a team of Level Designers through the development process of the world.• Defining gameplay metrics while also supervising the creation of the assets in order to craft a fluid navigation flow within the environment.• Designing future game events and seasonal updates.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• In collaboration with the Level Design Director, I've contributed to the definition of the high-level direction, design rules and guidelines for our new systemic quest approach.• Actively guiding the design and the development of our new Quests and AI systems in regards to the game vision and its implementation through the quests.• Leading the Level Design team for the prototyping and conception phase of the project.• Establishing the quests blueprint along with the Creative Director, the Level Design Director and the Narrative Director.• Leading a team of designers in charge of quests located in the Giza and Memphis areas of Egypt (approximately a third of the game).

- Assisting the Level Design Director into leading a small team of senior Level Designers during the conception of the world identity and the design of guidelines defining quests for a new open-world online 1st person shooter.- Conceptualizing the world structure with designers and artists.- Prototyped the navigation flow, the 360-approach philosophy and the metrics for an adaptive solo/team-based game.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Designing and implementing all side quests.• Guiding artists into the creation of secondary characters based on the gameplay and story• Assisting the writer to establish the stories for side quests.

Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

• Oversaw the content provided by our partnering studio in Bulgaria. Onsite presence in Bulgaria for 3 months in order to facilitate the development of the layouts and missions.• Defining the mission’s blueprint, overseeing the creation of the 25 missions created by designers at the studio.• Mentoring an associated studio by sharing brand guidelines and design methodologies.• Defining, reviewing, balancing and approving the missions, their related layouts and script.• Guiding the partnership and being the main point of contact for both studios level design-wise

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Along with the Level Design Director, I've helped defining the creative intentions and guided the design of most maps and missions developed by Ubisoft Singapore and Ubisoft Quebec studios.• Reviewing, balancing and approving the missions, their related layouts and script.• Guiding the partnership and being the main point of contact for the 2 studios mission-wise.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Designing and implementing multiple awards-winning E3 demo (Greek fire)• In charge of the design and implementation of tutorials, managing gameplay consistency, game balancing and skills evolution amongst the missions.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Creating various prototypes in collaboration with programmers and animators to define a new dynamic environment type of action-adventure game.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Joined the project for a temporary assignment to help the team by re-working, polishing and debugging side missions.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Designing and implementing multiple awards-winning E3 demo (Leonardo's flying machine)• In charge of the design and implementation of tutorials on multiple games, managing gameplay consistency, game balancing and skills evolution amongst the missions.• Designed, created and polished multiple missions and level layouts from their concept phase to their gold-master status.• Brainstormed, prototyped and iterated on different concepts with the game design department.• Defined mission stories and adapted the script in close collaboration with writers in regards to the overall mission direction and its specific production constraints.• Created design documents and worked closely with world designers, artists, animators and programmers to develop and integrate gameplay ingredients, cinematics and scripted events.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• In charge of the design and implementation of tutorials, managing gameplay consistency, game balancing and skills evolution amongst the world areas.• Designed, created and polished multiple level layouts from their concept phase to their gold-master status (Alchemist area).• Working closely with artists, animators and programmers to develop and integrate gameplay ingredients, cinematics and scripted events.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Co-designing with a senior Level Designer and implementing multiple awards-winning E3 demo (Live demo - Talal mission)• Prototyping different gameplays during the conception phase• Implementing and adjusting mission design ideas on all Jerusalem missions.• Working along with technical directors and programmers to establish the tools and support required to develop the new engine and open world gameplay for interactive scripted missions.

College Degree - Aec, Level Design

Videogame school with a specialization in Level design. The program touches multiple aspect of game development, covering the design &.

Bachelors Degree, Graphic Design

Computer graphics, graphic design, photography, typography and print

College Degree - Dec, Techniques D'Intégration Multimédia

Multimedia, video editing, web design, interactive programmation (ActionScript, Lingo), data base & web programmation (PHP, ASP)